David Schwimmer Quotes
I like to grow as an actor, and you can do that by playing parts that are unfamiliar to you and uncomfortable.
Quotes to Explore
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There are as many ways to help another human being as there are people in need of help. For some, the urgent need is as basic as food and water. For others, it is an opportunity to develop a talent, realize an idea, and reach one's full potential.
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I'm not a psychiatrist.
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There is another old poet whose name I do not now remember who said, 'Truth is the daughter of Time.'
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Fashion is a form of ugliness so intolerable that we have to alter it every six months.
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The goal in life is to be solid, whereas the way that life works is totally fluid, so you can never actually achieve that goal.
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I never studied anything about film technique in school. Eventually, I realized that cinema and theater are not so different: from the gut to the heart to the head of a character is the same journey for both.
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There's nothing mathematical to my writing. It's a feeling.
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I hope SeaWorld is exploring how, like Ringling, it can get out of the wild animal business.
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Everything in nature is not just a straight up. It's an S-curve. It arises for a while until it hits some physical limitation, and then it plateaus again.
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Suffrage is a common right of citizenship. Women have the right of suffrage. Logically it cannot be escaped.
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A smart phone essentially creates a dossier of your travels, and consumers have no control over who will eventually see that information.
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I am not afraid that the book will be controversial, I'm afraid it will not be controversial.
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Life is precious, and when someone dies it's an opportunity to realise how precious it is. My brother drowned when I was 17. He was 15. I think I grew from that. My father didn't. It really crushed him.
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China's own recent history proves that when it opens itself, there is nothing its people cannot accomplish. A more open China will lead to a more prosperous and stable China. That's good for China, the United States and, indeed, the entire world.
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I don't want any yes – men around me. I want everybody to tell me the truth even if it costs them their job.
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The United States has got some of the dumbest people in the world. I want you to know that we know that.
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I got in the school band and the school choir. It all hit me like a ton of bricks, everything just came out. I played percussion for a while, and stayed after school forever just tinkering around with different things, the clarinets and the violins.
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It's funny, because in 1970 I met the Beatles quite by a chance at a party. It was the Beethoven bicentenary, and I was then also playing the Beethoven Sonatas. And that's all they wanted to hear about - I wanted to talk about them, and all they wanted to talk about was Beethoven.
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Even if you have a big tune, live crowds can get sick of it. It's not just about the song but also the staying power and if people have connected with it in a certain way. I know that the tracks I put more emotion and depth into are the ones that have the staying power in clubs.
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I enjoy the quiet life.
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I don't know if you've been in any inner-city schools, but it's pretty demoralizing. The kids come to class bright-eyed, enthusiastic - entering first grade really looking forward to school. By the fourth grade they're just completely turned off, and by the time they enter high school, they see little relationship between school and employment. It's bad enough you have incompetent teachers and schools that are poorly run, understaffed, and lack material resources. It's even worse when the kids themselves don't feel they have any stake in school.
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There have been many times when I've auditioned and I've actually won a different role in the same film.
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I get literally a physical sensation of low self-esteem that is a result of not engaging the world and getting comfortable that way.
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I like to grow as an actor, and you can do that by playing parts that are unfamiliar to you and uncomfortable.
